Workshop Proposal: Multi-Scalar and Cross-Disciplinary Approaches towards Equitable Water Governance- University of California, Santa Cruz, February 2013

该奖项支持将在加州大学圣克鲁斯分校举行的“多标量和跨学科方法实现公平水治理”研讨会。人类消费、能源、服务和工业用水需求正在迅速增加，水资源短缺正在成为一场全球性的危机。此外，水资源的获取和分配仍然不公平，这一问题由于气候变化的影响而变得更加明显。目前的理论和分析模型不能充分解释水的不平等。问题的部分原因在于，大多数水资源研究都侧重于单一层面的分析，大多是地方性的，而忽视了行动者和机构之间在多个尺度上的动态，这些动态可能会相互作用，产生水资源获取模式和结果。本次研讨会旨在为公平的水治理制定一个新的多尺度和跨学科的分析框架。它将汇集一个具有来自世界各地（包括南美和中美洲、非洲、南亚和东亚）关键案例专业知识的多元化和跨学科团队。讲习班的四个目标是：1)确定与水平等有关的问题的共同模式和过程，这些问题跨越地理界限，同时认识到形成社会生态动态的具体背景的重要性；2)探索水获取模式的相关制度基础，作为理解水治理和社会组织的一种方式；3)以时间尺度和社会-政治-空间尺度为主要关注点，为水资源公平治理和供应的多尺度研究建立跨学科框架；4)制定分析和研究重点，在实施水治理问题研究的关键成果方面促进更大的一致性和可比性。研讨会支持高级和初级学者，包括研究生。

This award supports a workshop on Multi-Scalar and Cross-Disciplinary Approaches towards Equitable Water Governance to be held at the University of California-Santa Cruz. Water demand for human consumption, energy, services, and industrial uses is rapidly increasing and water scarcity is becoming a crisis worldwide. In addition, access and distribution of water resources continue to be inequitable, a problem that is becoming more pronounced through the effects of climate change. Current theoretical and analytical models do not adequately explain water inequities. Part of the problem is that most water scholarship focuses on single level analysis, mostly local, and neglects the dynamics among actors and institutions at multiple scales that may interact to produce water access patterns and outcomes. This workshop seeks to develop a new multi-scalar and cross-disciplinary analytical frameworks for equitable water governance. It will bring together a diverse and interdisciplinary team with expertise in key cases from around the world, including South and Central America, Africa, South and East Asia. The workshop's four objectives are: 1) to identify common patterns and processes in issues related to water equity that cut across geographical boundaries while recognizing the importance of specific contexts in shaping socio-ecological dynamics; 2) to explore the associated institutional underpinnings of water access patterns as a way to understand water governance and social organization; 3) to develop a cross-disciplinary framework for the multi-scalar study of equitable water governance and provision, with primary attention to temporal scale and socio-political-spatial scale; and 4) to generate analytics and research priorities that foster greater consistency and comparability in operationalizing key outcomes in research on water governance issues. The workshop supports both senior and junior scholars, including graduate students.